Regardless of Its Future CEO or Owner, RIM’s Future is Cloud Services

RIM has announced that co-CEOs Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie will step down and will be replaced with current COO Thorsten Heins. The news follows rumor that Samsung was in talks to acquire all or part of RIM (a rumor that Samsung denies).

RIM has struggled in recent years despite increased sales as Android and iOS devices take market share from BlackBerry devices, not to mention major outages and scrutiny from major governments regarding its encryption methods (many countries want to the ability to snoop on their citizen’s encrypted messages).